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Show 'Interesting Letters from Springville G.I. Tells of Action on Korean Front Just an inkling of what is going on in Korea, and something of what our boys are going through is seen in the following parts of letters from Jay Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kelly. In the office to change her son's address, add-ress, Mrs. Kelly mentioned where her son was and some of the experiences ex-periences he was having and we asked her for the priviledge of printing parts of his letters. We believe every reader of the Herald will be interested in reading his accounts of the war in Korea, taken ta-ken from letters dated May 13, 23, 25, and June 6 and 7 as follows: fol-lows: May 13 We are still in reserve re-serve and taking more training every day. This morning I slept in until 10:30 a.m. Did it ever seem good. First time I have done that since I was home on leave. I didn't did-n't get up even for breakfast. Sgt. Johnsnude of the first platoon was chosen as the typical G. I. in Korea Kor-ea and the movies we had taken of us the other day are part of a story that they have filmed about him. The name of the film is going go-ing to be, ''The Life of Your G. I. in Korea." It is on Armed Forces Day that it will be shown instead of Army Day. I hope that if you get a chance to see it that you get a glimpse of me. I had all of my hair cut off the other day, Just as close as the clippers would cut it. Most of the guys dTd the same. Do I ever look funny but it is cool and a lot cleaner clean-er . not a chance of getting lice in it now. May 23 We moved out on the attack Sunday morning and this afternoon is the first time we have stopped except to dig in at night. We sure did catch Joe Chink by surprise. Sunday we got into a couple of tough fights but since then all we have done is climb mountains. Boy, am I tired. The Chinks have all pulled out, at last in our sector. We have only $seen one in the last two days I guess they are making agenerai withdrawal. You probably know more about what we are doing than we do. Just remember if you read about the 35th Reg. it .will be :my outfit, Co. E 2nd Batt. 35th Reg. We have been served hot chow three times since last Sunday breakfast which is very good. Those darned combat and assault rations" get old after you eat them for a while. It would help a lot if we could heat them up. Monday it rained all day and until about 10 o'clock. We were all soaked through. It sure was a cold miserable night but I am really real-ly tough. No lie, all this hiking has really toughened me. I . didn t even get the sniffles from the ram let alone catch a cold. The deal over here isn't very pretty We killed almost three hundred Chinese Chin-ese Sunday, took 20 some - odd prisoners and I don't know horn many got away and were wounded. Our outfit had twenty casualties. Two men were killed, four seriously serious-ly injured and, the rest had minor flesh wounds. ' ... You don't need to worry about me, I am in the machine gun squad of our platoon. I have to work like hell packing the ammunition but when the fighting is going on I am back about 300 yards. Our squad stays back and fires at the Chinks so they will keep their heads down. This enables our men to rush them without getting shot at too much. I can't figure those poor damned Chinks. They haven't got a chance. After the artillery is through with them, it is a chinch for the infantry. Sunday I almost got sick from looking at dead Chirlts. The big guns really do their jobs. Don't take anything any-thing from the infantry, though. I have never seen any men braver than these in my company. No book or movie could ever show or tell about how much courage they have. I am proud to be one of them. I am safe enough, don't worry about me. May 25 After six days of pushing forward, they have finally decided to give our company a rest. We are in battalion reserve right now, but they can put us back on the line within an hour, if we are needed. We are staying in a little village about 8 miles below the 38th parallel. I feel weak as heck. Just need a rest, I guess. The G. I. have a big bunch of Chinks surrounded about a mile away. They have dug in on a mountain and just wont give it (Continued on Page Three) |